Hazel V. Carby
British-born scholar and leading Black feminist critic, Professor Emerita of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University; noted for Reconstructing Womanhood, Race Men, Cultures in Babylon, and Imperial Intimacies.
Books
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1. Imperial Intimacies
A Tale of Two Islands
A hybrid of memoir and history, this narrative follows a daughter’s investigation into her Welsh mother’s and Jamaican father’s intertwined lives to show how empire shaped their desires, opportunities, and intimate relationships. Moving between Britain and the Caribbean, it mines archives, family stories, and material culture to reveal how slavery, colonial schooling, labor, and migration were inscribed in domestic spaces and everyday decisions. Linking transatlantic economies—from sugar to credit and wartime service—to the making of race, gender, and class in postwar Britain, it exposes how imperial power persists within private life.
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